Wire heel-nail blank



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. F. P. RAYMOND, 2d.

WIRE HEE L'NAIL BLANK. No. 315,070. Patented Apr. '7, 1885.

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WIRE HEEL-NAIL BLANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,070, dated April 7, 1885.

Application filed January 5, 1885.

T0 at whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2d, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wire Heel-Nail Blanks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The object of this invention is to provide means for furnishing a heel-nail blank which can be easily fed and handled, and can be made without any or very little waste, and yet provide a form of nail which shall be substantially like the ordinary heel-nail of the market; and this I accomplish by reducing wire. in suitable rolls to provide a string of connected heel-nails, or nails having all the characteristics of the ordinary heel nail of the market.

Referring to the drawings, Figure I represents in elevation a section of a string of my improved heel-nail blanks. Fig. 2 is an edge view in elevation of the same section. Figs. 3 and 4 are corresponding views of a nailblank of somewhat different form. Figs. 5 and 6 show like views of the nail-blanks, showing a slightly different form of connection. Fig. 7 shows in vertical central section rolls for making the blanks from wire. Fig. 8'is an end elevation of one of the wire rolls.

In making the string heel-nail I take wire of the size desired and submit it to the action of the rolls A B, having formed in their peripheries dies (1, which shape the wire to the form of the heel-nail required, and these rolls are so arranged that the point-forming part of each nail is first formed, and when the nail is to be a flat nail-that is, a nail which shall be wider than it is thick-4t is desirable that the dies shall be so arranged that their widening surfaces shall not project into the die, but shall extend across its circumference. The wire may be hot or cold rolled, as desired, and it may be passed through two sets of die-rolls instead of one, if required, although one set will be suflicient to reduce the wire to the proper shape. The completed strip will consist of alarge number or string of nail-blanks, 0, having a long taper, c, from head to point on two sides, and having the two parallel sur- (Xo model.)

each blank, connecting with the head-forming portion next following. I prefer that this connection shall be substantially central, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2, 3 and 4:; but, if desired, it may be upon one side, as represented in Figs. 5 and 6, and for ease in rolling this form of string-nail is probably preferable; but whichever form of connection is used the completed string-nail has the two surfaces which, converging, form a point, and two surfaces which are parallel, and each nail-blank decreases in width regularly and uniformly from the head to the point.

I am aware of the British Patent No. 2,631 of 1859, which shows and describes a portion of a process for making hot-rolled headed nails, in which as a part of the process there is hot rolled in a wide nail-plate of limited length a series of transverse tapering depressions, and that said nail-plate is afterward slit into a series of longitudinal nail-rods, which nail-rods are afterward rolled to planish and flatten them, and are then reduced to separate headed nails. As, however, I use no plate in the manufacture of the continuous length of the complete heel-nails herein described, and as it is made from wire, and as the nails are completed in the wire before severing, and as the process described in said British patent does not provide for a continuous length of nails, I consider that the said patent does not contain the essential features of my invention. There are several advantages obtained from this form of wire string heel-nail, and among them may be mentioned, first, the advantage which a nail of this form gives to the automatic heel making and feeding devices of the faces 0, forming the point-forming portion 'of heel making or attaching machine, because a nail-blank of this character requires very simple feeding and severing devices-in other words, it is easily handled.

Aside from the advantages in construction such a string-nail provides for the machine using it, there are the advantages which arise from the ease of transportation and use which are provided, as the nail can be wound on a reel or in a roll ready for shipment and use. Another advantage arises from the fact that the complete heel-nail as delivered by the machine is one of ordinary form, but is much stronger than the common cut nail, for it pos- IOO sesses all the advantages which working the metal in wire rolls gives to it; consequently the nail is much stronger than the ordinary shoe-nail.

I am aware that it is not new to form a continuous wire of distinct nails, and that many patents have been granted for some special or specific form of the same, and among them is the patent to O. H. Trask, No. 182,495, which describes a fastening for the soles of boots and shoes, having a head of the size of the wire or rod from which it is made, a taper- 7 ing shank, and a clinching-point; but the continuous wire of distinct nails herein described does not have a distinct head, nor continuous point, nor any part which is of the same size of the wire or rod from which it is made, and, so far as I am aware, none of the various FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D.

Witnesses:

Tuos. WM. CLARKE, FRED. B. DOLAN. 

